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DOWNTOWN NEIGHBORHOODS AND SURROUNDING AREAS

Howell Mill Rd 10th St 10th St 10th St

MIDTOWN VIRGINIA-HIGHLAND W Marietta St

Howell Mill Rd

Northside Dr

8th St

Monroe Dr

Peachtree St Joseph E Lowery Blvd TECH 75

Marietta St 85 Ponce De Leon Ave W Peachtree St W Peachtree Piedmont Ave

Donald Lee Hollowell Pkwy Freedom Pkwy

Northside Dr Ponce De Leon Ave

North Ave North Ave North Ave MARIETTA ARTERY

North Ave Spring St SONO ENGLISH

AVENUE NORTHSIDE DRIVE Marietta St

CORRIDOR Glen Iris Dr Drive Park Olympic Centennial James P Brawley Dr James P Brawley CENTENNIAL PLACE Peachtree St

CENTENNIAL HILL Ralph McGill Blvd Ralph McGill Ave

Freedom Parkway

Spring St

CENTENNIAL Baker - Highland Connector VINE CITY Marietta St HOTEL Highland Ave OLYMPIC PARK DISTRICT

Freedom Parkway

Northside Dr International Blvd Joseph E Lowery Blvd

Andrew Young International Blvd

Piedmont Ave

FAIRLIE- Boulevard Vine City POPLAR MARTA Station

Auburn Ave Auburn Ave Edgewood Ave

M L King Jr Dr GEORGIA Edgewood Ave STATE Spring St DeKalb Ave ATLANTA 75 UNIVERSITY 85 Wylie St CENTER Piedmont Ave KING HISTORIC James P Brawley Dr James P Brawley Decatur St DISTRICT CASTLEBERRY CABBAGETOWN HILL Jesse Hill Jr Dr Boulevard M L King Jr Dr Kirkwood Ave Peachtree St SOUTH CBD

M L King Jr Dr Northside Dr Memorial Dr Memorial Dr MEMORIAL DRIVE CORRIDOR

Boulevard

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Capitol Ave Capitol GRANT PARK WEST END SUMMERHILL

Joseph E Lowery Blvd MECHANICSVILLE

Ralph David Abernathy Blvd Georgia Ave 75

West End West Metropolitan Pkwy Metropolitan DOWNTOWN NEIGHBORHOODS MARTA Station MARTA 85 SURROUNDING AREAS DOWNTOWN RESIDENTIAL MARKET FACTS & FIGURES

EXISTING HOUSING Rental Units Market Rate...... 4,640 Special Needs*...... 3,442 For Sale Units ...... 3,906 University Housing ...... 2,511 *Special Needs Units include affordable, public, and senior housing. 14,499

UPCOMING HOUSING Under Construction Units...... 5,566 Planned Units ...... 2,948 8,514

TOTAL DOWNTOWN Total For Sale Units ...... 7,437 HOUSING UNITS Total Rental – Market Rate Units ...... 7,499 (Existing, Under Construction, & Planned) Total Rental – Special Needs Units...... 3,566 Total University Units...... 4,511 23,013

Information compiled by staff research and based on information available Fall 2006. RESIDENTIAL DEMOGRAPHIC Population ...... 23,300 STATISTICS: Population by 2008...... 36,600 Average household income...... $45,000 Average housing value...... $175,000 Average market rent...... $1,185 Median age...... 31 One-person households ...... 59% Families with children ...... 18% Households of roommates...... 12% Households with member over 65 years old...... 15% Households living in structures with 20 or more units ...... 53% Take public transportation or walk to work ...... 31% Have no car...... 43%

OTHER DOWNTOWN Daytime Employees...... 137,000 POPULATIONS: Students ...... 40,000 Daily visitors (business, pleasure, conventions)...... 40,000 Annual visitors and conventioneers...... 12 million

OTHER STATISTICS: Hotel rooms ...... 12,000 Restaurants / eateries...... 150 Bars / ...... 25 Square feet of office space ...... 17,023,566 OWNERSHIP  Johnson & Johnson Lofts 18 units / $300,000 – $400,000  Castleberry Place Conversion 4 units / $250,000 – $330,000 Opened 1990 New Construction Planned 2007  Beeline Lofts 19 units / $175,000 – $275,000  GE Lofts Conversion Castleberry Hill, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is made 49 units / $150,000 – $300,000 Opened 2000 up of historic warehouses that have been converted into residential lofts, Conversion Opened 1996  Stonewall Battery restaurants, pubs, art galleries, salons, and coffee shops. Adjacent to the 8 units rail lines that were integral in Atlanta’s formation, Castleberry Hill has  Bottle Works Renovated become an artist’s haven. The neighborhood hosts an annual loft tour that 12 units / $150,000 – $250,000 Opened 1993 Conversion showcases the dramatic conversions from former manufacturing plants, Opened 1993  211 Walker Street 9 units warehouses, and meat packing buildings.  DUO Conversion 80 units / $160,000 – $300,000 Opened 1997 NEIGHBORHOOD AMENITIES: New construction Opened 2006 Fairside Lofts  • Restaurants and bars including NoMas! Cantina, Paschal’s Restaurant, Wasabi, 15 units / $110,000 – $400,000 Elliott Street Pub, M , Slice, and others  Centennial Station Conversion • 58 units / $159,900 – $314,900 Opened 1995 Many galleries, artist studios, and exhibition space New construction • Close to the and both the Garnett and the Dome/GWCC/ Opened 2006  Fair & Walker Lofts Philips Arena/CNN Center MARTA Station 42 units / $150,000 – $300,000  Castleberry Point New construction Mitchell St 108 units / $160,000 – $700,000 Under construction 2006 New construction Richard B. Russell Atlanta St Haynes Under construction 2008 American Laundry 1 Building  University Martin Luther Markham St Sam Nunn 1 unit Complex 39 3 King Jr. Mitchell St Atlanta Federal  Deer Lofts Conversion FederalCenter Building 49 units / $169,000 – $300,000 Beckwith Ct 4 5 45 Opened 2001 Beckworth St Conversion 6 Nelson St The Stables Lofts Haynes St 7 Opened 1996  Parsons St 3 units Chapel St 10 9 Castleberry Square 11 8  Conversion 12 30 units Opened 2002 14 Garnett St

Conversion Vine St 40 2

Walnut St 15 Stonewall St 16 Opened 1983 Storehouse Lofts Peters St  20 17 36 21 units / $175,000 – $250,000 Fair St Bailey St 21 18 Greyhound 19  PillowTex Building Conversion 35 Brotherton StBus 4 units Clark Atlanta 22 34 Terminal Opened 2000 University 41 23 Fair St 32 33 Conversion 42 Garnett Opened 1992 330 Peters Larkin St 31  MARTA Station 13 30 6 units / $225,000 – $1.25 M 24 Mueller Lofts 38 Northside Dr  Conversion Walker St 14 units / $200,000 – $350,000 Opened 2000 Conversion 43 Trenholm St Opened 1999  322 Peters Hills Ave 25 McDaniel St 20 units 29

140 Walker Street Spelman La 28  Conversion 37 3 units / $225,000 – $390,000 27 Opened 2005 26 Conversion Whitehall St Opened 1999  Market Lofts 123 units / $135,000 – $250,000  150 Walker Street Conversion 12 units / $170,000 44 Opened 2000 Eugenia St Conversion 20 Cooper St Cooper Opened 1996  Swift & Co. Lofts 31 units / $120,000 – $306,000  Ty Stokes Conversion 3 units Opened 1998 Castleberry Gallery Intown Lofts Conversion   3 units 87 units / $900 – $2,400 Opened 2001 Kingan & Co. Lofts  Conversion New construction 14 units / $170,000 – $300,000 Loftman Lofts Opened 2002  Conversion West Lumber Lofts 3 units  Opened 1996 15 units / Ownership Legacy Lofts at Castleberry Hill Conversion  Conversion 18 units / $1,250 – $1,785 Opened 2002 Castleberry Row Townhomes  Opened 1998 New construction 4 units Opened 2002  Aristocraft Lofts Conversion 5 units / $289,000 – $299,000 Opened 2002 Village at Castleberry Hill Conversion  RENTAL 166 units / $620 – $1000 Opened 2005 222 Peters  New construction 3 units Village at Castleberry Hill 188 Walker Street   Conversion 248 units / $620 – $1,000 Century Lofts 3 units  Opened 1997 New construction 28 units / $1,250 – $2,300 Conversion Under construction 2006 Conversion Opened 1991 Machine Shop Lofts  Opened 2003 8 units / $150,000 – $300,000 Northside Plaza 190 Walker Street   Conversion 127 units / $620 – $785 9 units / $160,000 – $400,000 Opened 2000 New construction Conversion Opened 1991 OWNERSHIP & RENTAL Opened 1997  199 – 203 Peters Townhouses 4 units  Stonewall Lofts  Norfolk Southern Conversion Conversion 38 units / $728 – $2,250 90 units / Ownership Opened 2001 New construction 360 units / Rental Opened 1998 Planned North Ave North Ave 6 18

1 Spring St Linden Ave Boulevard Pl Linden Ave 7 3 4 Crawford Long 2 Merritts Ave Morgan St 11 Hospital Central Renaissance Pkwy Park H 8 Renaissance Pine St Park Pine St 19 Pine St

Boulevard

Glen Iris Dr 14 Angier Ave Lovejoy St Lovejoy Hunnicut St

Peachtree St

9 Angier Ave

Civic Center Civic MARTA Station MARTA Pl Park Central McAfee St McAfee Currier St Atlanta 10 Latta St Civic

Centennial Olympic Park Drive Park Olympic Centennial Center Felton Dr 5

Folwer St Folwer Ivan Allen Jr Blvd 15 12 20 Ralph McGill Ave Ralph McGill Blvd West Peachtree Pl

Georgia New World 13 Parkway Dr of Coca-Cola Aquarium Simpson St Hardy-Ivy 2007 Imagine it! Piedmont Ave Company Park Atlanta Wabash Ave The Children’s Medical of Center Atlanta SunTrust Plaza 16 Baker St Williams St H Park Avenue West

Spring St

Centennial America’s Courtland St Olympic Park Mart Baker - Highland Connector Marietta St 17 Harris St

Peachtree SONOCenter OLD FOURTH WARD

SoNo, or South of , is a diverse neighborhood that The Old Fourth Ward, largely made up of single family residential units, connects the heart of Downtown to Midtown. One of Downtown’s earliest is one of the oldest residential areas in the city of Atlanta. Now, the redeveloped residential areas, SoNo truly offers a mix of all residential redevelopment of City Hall East and the Atlanta Beltline is spurring housing types—single family homes, town homes, apartments, high-rise development on the east, and the King Historic District is creating condos, and garden-style condos. The neighborhood also has a mix of excitement on the west of the Old Fourth Ward. This area is poised to commercial uses and boasts claim to the Bank of America Building—the experience a boom in redevelopment in the coming years. tallest building in the Southeast. In addition, SoNo is home to many restaurants and has an active nightlife.

NEIGHBORHOOD AMENITIES: NEIGHBORHOOD AMENITIES:

• The Boisfeuillet Jones • Publix at Piedmont • with Walgreen’s pharmacy • Proposed Beltline parks and transit system • Civic Center MARTA Station • Central Park • Studioplex galleries • Emory Crawford Long Hospital • Close to the Fox Theater and the • Close to Midtown Place shopping center with Whole Foods and The Home Depot • New American North Avenue MARTA Station

SONO RENTAL OLD FOURTH WARD RENTAL: SPECIAL NEEDS OWNERSHIP  Savannah Midtown OWNERSHIP  Cosby Spear 322 units / $840 – $1,375 282 units / Based on income  The Reynolds New construction  Central City Original construction 1985 130 units / $200,000 – $500,000 Opened 2001 88 units / $176,900 – $290,900 New construction New construction  Bedford Pine Apartments Opened 2006  Gables Cityscape Under construction 10/2006 733 units / Based on income 192 units / $675 -- $1,350 Original construction 1995  Enclave at Renaissance New construction  City Heights Towers Maggie Russell Towers 136 units / $150,000 – $230,000 Opened 1989 145 units  Conversion New construction 150 units / Based on income Opened 2004  Waterford on Piedmont Opened 1999 Original construction 2003 153 units / $1,470 – $2,475  Siena at Renaissance New Construction  Central Park Lofts 173 units Opened 2001 35 units / $200,000 – $360,000 OWNERSHIP & RENTAL New construction New construction Opened 1994  450 Piedmont Townhomes Opened 2001  City View 254 units / $795 – $1,680 56 units / Ownership  Renaissance Park New construction  McGill Place 202 units / Rental 84 units Opened 1997 188 units New construction New construction Original construction Opened 2003 Opened 1981  Post Renaissance Opened 1987 342 units / $699 – $1,750  Renaissance Lofts New construction  McGill Park 186 units / $225,000 Opened 1994 224 units Conversion Original construction Opened 1998  Row Opened 1994 15 units / $1,900 – $2,750 Conversion Venable St

Marietta St Luckie St Luckie

Hunnicut St John St

Peachtree St Civic Center Civic McAfee St McAfee

MARTA Station MARTA Atlanta Currier St Mills St Civic 6 7 Center 1 2

Ivan Allen Jr Blvd St Folwer 5 Jones Ave Drive Park Olympic Centennial Ralph McGill Blvd West Peachtree Pl Georgia New World Aquarium 9 of Coca-Cola 11 11 Georgia Power Imagine it! Simpson St Hardy-Ivy 3 2007 Company The Children’s 11 8 Park Museum of Atlanta

Williams St SunTrust Plaza 10 Baker St Latimer St Park Avenue West Centennial Spring St Thurmond St Olympic Park America’s Courtland St Mart Georgia Marietta St World Harris St Congress 4 Center Georgia America’s Peachtree World Georgia Mart Center

Maple Pl Maple Building Congress Chamber of World Piedmont Ave Northside Dr C Commerce Center Congress Carnegie Way Andrew Young International Blvd Building Center Williams St Foundry St B Building East A Electric Ave West Plaza Plaza

MARTA Station MARTA 191 Peachtree Peachtree CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK CENTENNIALTower HILL

The creation of Centennial Olympic Park for the 1996 Summer Olympic The neighborhood is an area rich with new investment. Games prompted much development directly surrounding the park. Home In recent years, the area has become home to new residential not only to pre-Olympic cornerstones like CNN Center, the area is now condominium buildings, Imagine It! The Children’s Museum of Atlanta, home to the , Philips Arena and the new World of and the new headquarters of the Southern Company. Twenty acres of Coca-Cola, opening in summer of 2007. With close to 3 million annual the area are being redeveloped into Allen Plaza, a multi-block, mixed guests to the Park, another 3+ million visitors to the Aquarium, and close use projects including new office, residential, luxury hotel, and to a million anticipated at the World of Coca-Cola, this area has the restaurant space that will be completed in a number of phases over opportunity to capture the interest of these visitors with new , the coming years. restaurants, and hospitality developments.

NEIGHBORHOOD AMENITIES: NEIGHBORHOOD AMENITIES:

• Centennial Olympic Park • World of Coca-Cola • Imagine It! The Children’s • Upscale hotels and restaurants • CNN Center • Dome/GWCC/Philips Arena/CNN Center Museum of Atlanta • Proximity to Centennial Olympic Park, • Philips Arena MARTA Station • Headquarters of Southern Company the Peachtree Corridor and the Civic and Ernst & Young Center MARTA Station • The Georgia Aquarium

CENTENNIAL CENTENNIAL HILL OWNERSHIP & RENTAL OLYMPIC PARK OWNERSHIP  Post Properties at Allen Plaza OWNERSHIP 655 units / Rental Centennial House  330 units / Ownership 120 units / $160,000 – $260,000  Aries New construction Conversion 120 units Planned 2009 New construction Opened 1999 Planned  W Hotel & Residences  Centennial Park East 75 units 200 units New construction New construction Planned Planned  Twelve Centennial Park  Atlantis 1,034 units / $200,000 – $650,000 251 units New construction New construction Under construction 10/2007 Planned 2007  Brio Lofts  Centennial Park West 6 units 95 units $400,000 – $2 M Conversion New construction  Peachtree Towers Opened 2001 300 units Original construction 1962  Museum Tower at Centennial Hill 162 units / $169,000 -- $600,000 New construction W Hotel & Residences Opened 2002 Museum Tower at Centennial Hill America’s Peachtree Mart Center FAIRLIE-POPLAR Andrew Young International Blvd Centennial Carnegie Way 191 Peachtree East Olympic Park Nassau St Williams St Tower Plaza

Fairlie-Poplar was Atlanta’s turn-of-the-century central business Station MARTA

Luckie1 St Center Peachtree Walton St district and today many of the buildings are over 100 years old. 2 CNN Poplar St Much of the area is designated as a National Register Historic Marietta St Center Georgia- District, and many of the city’s oldest high-rise buildings found here Atlanta-Fulton Library Pacific have recently been converted to condominiums and apartments or 3 Center Wall St Balzer higher education uses by . The area exudes 9 Theater 7 a human scale neighborly feel with a high concentration of Rialto Center residents, restaurants, nightlife, and the arts all within close Cone St

proximity to each other. 4 Fairlie St NEIGHBORHOOD AMENITIES: 8 Forsyth St SunTrust • Rialto Center for the Performing Arts Broad St Tower 6 Park Woodruff Peachtree Center Ave • The Tabernacle concert hall 5 • Balzer Theater at Herren’s Peachtree St Alabama St • U.S. Court of Appeals Spring St Five Points Gilmer St • Atlanta-Fulton County Public Library Sam Nunn MARTA Station • Close to , Centennial Olympic Park and the Peachtree MarRichard B. Atlanta Federal Center and Five Points MARTA Stations in LutherRussell Center King Jr.Building Georgia Federal Building Wall St State University

Broad St OWNERSHIP RENTAL  123 Luckie Street  Fairlie-Poplar Lofts 52 units / $265,000 – $450,000 15 units / $700 -- $1,700 New construction Conversion Opened 2000 Opened 1996  Luckie Street Studios  Muses Lofts 3 units 65 units / $800 -- $1,685 Conversion Conversion Opened 1998 Opened 1996  90 Fairlie 21 units / $849,000 – $949,000 Renovation RENTAL: SPECIAL NEEDS Opened 2000  The Madison House  The Healey 128 units / Based on income 112 units Renovation Conversion Opened 1993 Opened 2001  Metropolitan 89 units Conversion 123 Luckie Street Opened 1996  William Oliver Lofts 114 units / $89,000 – $205,000 Conversion Opened 2003

Muses Lofts The Healey America’s Peachtree Mart Center Atlanta Opera Andrew Young International Blvd Currier St Atlanta Carnegie Way 191 3 Civic Nassau St Peachtree St Peachtree

Civic Center Civic Center MARTA Station MARTA

Central Park Pl Park Central Williams St Tower MARTA Station MARTA

Luckie St Center Peachtree Ralph McGill Blvd Walton St Ellis St Piedmont Ave West Peachtree Pl 3 New World Atlanta-Fulton of Coca-Cola Drive Park Olympic Centennial Georgia Power Library 2007 Imagine it! Simpson St Hardy-Ivy Company Poplar St Park Georgia- The Children’s Balzer Pacific John Wesley Dobbs Ave Museum of Theater Atlanta SunTrust Plaza Center Williams St Rialto Baker St Center Centennial Spring St Courtland St Fairlie Olympic Park America’s Mart Baker - Highland Connector Auburn Ave

Harris St SunTrust APEX Bell St Broad St Tower Peachtree 1 Park Museum America’s Woodruff Peachtree Center Ave Mart Center Sweet

Piedmont Ave Auburn Auditorium Pl Andrew Young International Blvd Gilmer StHurt 2 Curb Coca-Cola Pl Carnegie Way Five Points Park Market 191 MARTA Peachtree Station Williams St Tower 75 Nassau St Armstrong St MARTA Station MARTA Wall St Georgia Luckie St Center Peachtree Ellis St 1 State

Poplar St University Georgia- -Fulton Pacific 85 Walton St Library Center Atlanta Piedmont Ave Grady Decatur St Pratt St Balzer John Wesley Dobbs Ave Memorial Theater 2 Hospital Rialto Fulton Peachtree Center Ave Pryor St Jesse Hill Jr Dr Center County H Georgia State GovernmentOld Wheat St M L King Jr Dr MARTA Station Fairlie Center Auburn Ave St Bell

SunTrust APEX Bell St Broad St Park Woodruff Tower Museum Curb Market GEORGIA STATE St Moore

Home to the city’s largest concentration of convention hotels, the Hotel The Georgia State area is defined by an array of uses: various retail District also includes much of Atlanta’s premiere Class A office space. outlets, office space, and institutional establishments. In addition to the Various fine dining establishments dot the area, ranging from sushi and activity at Grady Memorial Hospital, the exponential growth of Georgia ethnic food to steakhouse and cigar bar. State University has made the area vibrant at all hours of the day. The regular programming at Woodruff Park offers an outdoor respite to office workers and students. The area is also the home of Georgia State University’s forthcoming new 2,000-bed student housing complex.

NEIGHBORHOOD AMENITIES: NEIGHBORHOOD AMENITIES:

• The Mall at Peachtree Center • Sundial at Westin Peachtree Plaza • Georgia State University • Georgia State MARTA Station • • Hard Rock Café • Grady Memorial Hospital • Close to the Five Points MARTA Station • The Museum of Contemporary Art of • Peachtree Center MARTA Station • Woodruff Park and Georgia at SunTrust Plaza (MOCA GA)

HOTEL DISTRICT GEORGIA STATE OWNERSHIP UNIVERSITY  Landmark  University Place at Underground 205 units 280 units / $650 – $835 New construction Conversion Opened 1966 Opened 2006  University Lofts 231 units / $2,975 – $4,688 RENTAL New construction Opened 2002  Freeman Ford Lofts 27 units / $1,000 – $1,600  University Commons Conversion 2,000 beds Opened 1996 New construction Under construction 2007

RENTAL: SPECIAL NEEDS  Imperial Hotel Apartments 120 units / Based on income University Commons Renovated Opened 1996 http://www.fontsite.com/Pages/FFDownloads.html

Freedom Parkway Andrew Young International Blvd KING HISTORIC DISTRICT Cain St 1 Piedmont Ave John Wesley Dobbs Ave 10 Ellis St

Irwin St The King Historic District combines history with an Irwin St

Boulevard assorted collection of independent retail, restaurant, John Wesley Dobbs Ave St Randolph and venues. Home to not only the Martin MLK, Jr. National 11 14 13 Historic Site Visitor’s Center Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, Ebenezer Baptist Old Wheat St

Church, and the , this historic Auburn Ave Auburn Ave APEX 2 Bell St 15 area is seeing new investment as well. Previously Museum Historic King Martin Luther King Jr. Auditorium Pl 3 Sweet Ebenezer Center Birth Home Baptist 7 vacant storefronts are being filled with coffee shops, Auburn Edgewood Ave 6 Curb 4 Church restaurants, nightclubs, and art galleries. The first major Coca-ColaMarket Pl 5 Chamberlain Armstrong St Tanner St Fitzgerald St 12 new construction project in the area is underway at 75 Wm H Borders Sr Jr Selena 9 Renaissance Walk. Piedmont Ave Butler Park Gartrell St Jackson St 8 Grady 85 17 Memorial NEIGHBORHOOD AMENITIES: Pratt St 16 Jesse Hill JrHospital Dr St Hilliard Todd St • Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site and Birth House H • Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Non-violent Social Change Boulevard • Historic Bell St 18 • Martin Luther King, Jr. Natatorium King Memorial • APEX Museum MARTA Station19 Moore St Moore Carroll St Carroll • Sweet Auburn Curb Market Historic Oakland Cemetery Fort St Moore St Moore OWNERSHIP RENTAL  Auburn Pointe  Tribute Lofts  Atlanta Overlook Gardens 48 units / Ownership 147 units / $170,000 – $300,000 192 units / $550 – $650 352 units / Rental New construction Original development 124 units / Rental: Special Needs Under construction 2007 Opened 1965 New Construction Under construction 2008, 2009  Renaissance Walk at Sweet Auburn  Studioplex 159 units / $150,000 – $400,000 112 units / $850 – $1,250  King Memorial MARTA Station New construction Conversion 150 units / Ownership Under construction 2007 Opened 1999 220 units / Rental New construction  Edge Lofts (Edgewood Village)  Auburn Glenn Planned 2010 44 units 271 units $692 – $1,340 New construction New construction Renaissance Walk Under construction 2007 Opened 2004  Brush Works 20 units / $140,000 – $280,000 Conversion RENTAL: SPECIAL NEEDS Opened 1995  Wheat Street Gardens  Edgewood Exchange 280 units / Rent based on income 15 units Original construction Conversion Opened 1969 Opened 2001  Bethel Towers  Edgewood Lofts 182 units / Rent based on income 7 units Original construction Conversion Opened 1969 Opened 1997  Wheat Street Towers  Dynamic Metal Lofts 210 units / Rent based on income 42 units / $160,000 Original construction New construction Tribute Lofts Opened 2004  Antoine Graves Annex 100 units / Rent 30% of income  Gartrell and Jackson Street Renovated Condominiums Opened 1966 18 units Renovation  Gartrell Court Opened 2006 108 units / Rent based on income  Cityscape 38 units / $90,000 – $140,000 New construction OWNERSHIP & RENTAL Opened 2003  Wheat Street Gardens Units TBD Redeveopment

Edge Lofts Wm H Borders Sr Jr

Pratt St Grady Jackson St Memorial Todd St Hospital H Hilliard St Hilliard MEMORIAL DRIVE CORRIDOR Jesse Hill Jr Dr

Boulevard Bell St Bell

Memorial Drive connects the government district of Atlanta King Memorial 3 MARTA Station with some of the city’s most quickly revitalizing residential Moore St Moore 4 Carroll St Carroll Historic Oakland Cemetery neighborhoods, including Grant Park and . As a result, the corridor has experienced significant Fort St 5

King St 1 M L King Jr Dr investment in recent years. For instance, two former public Moore St Moore housing projects are being redeveloped into mixed-income

Memorial Dr communities. Additionally, new loft developments over- 6 looking Oakland Cemetery are underway.

Woodward Ave 2 Woodward Ave Martin St NEIGHBORHOOD AMENITIES: Kelly St Kelly Grant St Grant Logan St Park Ave Harden St Harden

Boulevard Hill St Logan St • Historic Oakland Cemetery Rawson St Bryan St

Rawson Washington Park Washington Rawson • Planned Capitol-Oakland Park • Local restaurants including Daddy D’z, Ria’s Bluebird Café, and Six Feet Under SOUTH CBD • Close to the Georgia State MARTA Station OWNERSHIP  222 Mitchell 227 units / low $100s – low $200s Conversion SOUTH CBD Planned

 Gordon Lofts The South Central Business District (CBD) boasts a 18 units / $125,000 – $347,000 great deal of character and is one of the oldest sections Conversion Opened 1996 of Atlanta. In addition to the concentration of city, state,  SoMar Lofts and federal government offices, the South CBD also is 16 units / $148,000 – $245,000 home to Underground Atlanta. The area is becoming a Conversion hub of authentic loft residential development in former Opened 2003 19th-century hotels, department stores, and other  Kessler City Lofts commercial buildings. 50 units / $96,000 – $263,000 Conversion 222 Mitchell Opened 1998 NEIGHBORHOOD AMENITIES:

• • Historic MEMORIAL DRIVE CORRIDOR RENTAL • • Five Points MARTA Station, hub of the • Underground Atlanta MARTA rail system, and future site of OWNERSHIP  Sylvan Factory Lofts Dome/Philips Arena/GWCC/CNN multimodal transportation hub 14 units / $500 -- $975 MARTA Station Crown Candy Lofts Fairlie  Conversion 21 units / $150,000 – $350,000 Opened 1989 Broad St Park Conversion Woodruff Opened 1998 Trinity Lofts  Alabama St 15 units / $650 -- $1,145 Spring St Five Points Oakland Park Richard B.  Conversion Russell Sam Nunn MARTA Station Building Atlanta Federal 65 units / $190,000 – $360,000 Center Haynes St Haynes Wall St New construction City Plaza Martin Luther  King Jr. Under Construction 2007 164 units / $765 -- $1,400 Markham St Mitchell StFederal Building Broad St 4 5 Forsyth St Underground New construction 3 Atlanta The Stacks at Fulton Cotton Mill 2  Opened 1995 165 units / mid $100,000s 1 Haynes St Fulton Conversion Nelson St County Pryor St Opened 2006 Government M L King Jr Dr 6 Center RENTAL: SPECIAL NEEDS Garnett St Hope House Peachtree St  Trinity Ave7 RENTAL 70 units / Based on income Peters St Greyhound State New construction Bus Capitol Fulton Cotton Mill Lofts Brotherton St  Opened 2005 Terminal City Hall 526 units / $665 – $1,800 Garnett Conversion  Welcome House MARTA Station 8 Opened 1998 Capitol Pl 290 units / Based on income Central Ave Washington St Original construction Mattress Factory Lofts Memorial Dr  Opened 1992 218 units / $695 – $1,750 9 Conversion Opened 2001  Capitol Gateway 1,024 units New construction Phase I 2007 http://www.fontsite.com/Pages/FFDownloads.html McAfee St McAfee Plum St Plum Mills St 3 Howell Mill Rd Western Ave Northside Dr

Elm St Vine St Vine Folwer St Folwer 2 8th St 6th St Jones Ave Ivan Allen Jr Blvd Georgia Institute Dr Atlantic 1 Marietta St Georgia New World of Technology Aquarium of Coca-Cola Simpson St 2007

Tyler St Georgia Latimer St Marietta St Rock St World Park Avenue West Robert Ferst Center Congress Centennial for Performing Arts Center Thurmond St Olympic Park Ferst Dr Northside Dr Building Tech Pkwy Thurmond St C 8

Means St State St

Means St Northside Dr 1 Elm St

Vine St

Cherry St NORTHSIDEPl Maple DRIVE CORRIDOR

The Northside Drive Corridor, once considered solely as an alternate route to the Downtown North Ave Connector, is now becoming a hub of real estate activity. Recent developments include the Research Campus Northyards Business Park, a redeveloped railroad round house transformed into a modern-day North Ave Northyards Blvd Coca-Cola business park, as well as larger mixed use and residential projects. With the Georgia World Headquarters Centennial Congress Center and Georgia Dome on one side of the corridor and the residential Meldrum St Northyards Place Walnut St Walnut Business neighborhoods of English Avenue and Vine City on the other, Northside Drive is expected to Park emerge as an eclectic and vibrant corridor. Kennedy St

Jet St Bauder College St Luckie Marietta St NEIGHBORHOOD AMENITIES: Jet St 2

• Northyards Business Park • The Georgia Dome John St • Bauder College • Antioch Baptist Church North 3 Elm St • The Georgia World Congress Center • Vine City MARTA Station St Vine Mills St 5 Western Ave 6 Ivan Allen Jr Blvd Bobby Dodd 7 CENTENNIAL PLACE Stadium Jones Ave Jones Ave Grant Field

Cherry St Simpson St Centennial Place is a 60-acre community bordering North Ave the Georgia Institute of Technology and Centennial Tyler St 4 4 5 Olympic Park. With the first phases completed in Rock St Latimer St Thurmond St 1996 in time for the Olympic Games, Centennial

Place replaced the former Techwood and Clark Vine City Thurmond St Georgia Marietta St World Howell Homes, and it has received recognition 1 Congress Merritts Ave MARIETTA ARTERYCenter nationwide for both planning and site design.Coca-Cola This Building Headquarters 2 C walkable community truly feels like a neighborhood Previously an industrial corridor formed along the Western and Atlanta

and boasts rental and for-sale units that attract a Pine St

Venable St Railroad, this historic neighborhood went into decline in the 1960’s as Luckie St Luckie diverse group of residents. tenants closed shop. However, in recent years many adaptive reuse

Lovejoy St Lovejoy projects have sparked interest in the area once again. Many of these NEIGHBORHOOD AMENITIES: Hunnicut St historic buildings have been rehabilitated and now stand as office and 3 residential lofts, restaurants and art galleries. • Centennial Place Elementary School: Kindergarten through 5th grade St McAfee magnet school Mills St NEIGHBORHOOD AMENITIES: Centennial Olympic Park Drive Park Olympic Centennial

• Neighborhood YMCA/Community Center St Folwer Ivan Allen Jr Blvd • Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center • Close proximity to Centennial Olympic • Park, Georgia Tech and the North Ave Georgia Aquarium • The Coca-Cola Company World Headquarters MARTA Station New World of Coca-Cola • Puritan Mill loft offices and the Foundry 2007 Williams St Imagine it! The Children’s NORTHSIDE CENTENNIALLatimer St PLACE MuseumUNIVERSITY of  Pioneer Neon Lofts Atlanta 15 units / $200,000 – $450,000 DRIVE CORRIDOR Georgia State University Village OWNERSHIP  Conversion, Opened 1993 2,000 units / $2,797 OWNERSHIP Centennial Park North  New construction 1996 450 Russell-Bethursday at Northside 105 units / Under construction   45 units 96 units / $159,000 – $248,000 45 units / Occupied Conversion, Opened 2001 New construction, Planned $400,000 – $800,000 MARIETTA ARTERY New construction 2005-2006 OWNERSHIP  Hastings Seed Lofts RENTAL 19 units / $250,000 – $450,000 Allied Factory Lofts RENTAL  Conversion, Opened 1994  Gateway Apartments 10 units / $160,000 – $427,000 261 units / $663 – $1,300  Centennial Place Conversion, Opened 1990  Giant Lofts New Construction, Opened 2005 798 / $839 – $1,630 48 units / $143,000 – $360,000 Lofts at 560 New construction, Opened 2000  Conversion, Opened 1997 RENTAL: SPECIAL NEEDS 3 units RENTAL: SPECIAL NEEDS Conversion, Opened 1997  Homes RENTAL Palmer House 283 units / Based on income   Gasket City Lofts Hotel Roxy Lofts 250 units / Based on income  Original construction 1941 28 units / $199,000 – $440,000 18 units / $735 – $1,085 Original construction 1966 Conversion, Opened 1998 Conversion, Opened 1995  Roosevelt House 256 units / Based on income Original construction 1973 ADJOINING NEIGHBORHOODS

The mix of diverse and unique neighborhoods does not stop at Downtown’s boundaries. In fact, directly adjacent to Downtown there are a number of intown neighborhoods—each with its own distinct identity and character. The recent wave of investment in these neighborhoods has brought higher home prices and the growing residential base is no longer just urban pioneers. The residents range from young professionals to families; and students to retirees. Many are former suburbanites moving closer to their work to avoid long commutes and falling in love with dense, urban environments where they can live, work, learn and play.

MIDTOWN MECHANICSVILLE Directly to the north of Downtown, Midtown is an evolving Mechanicsville is located one mile south of . It is bordered by and cosmopolitan urban center with a mix of residential, I-20 to the north, the I-75/I-85 connector to the east, and the Norfolk Southern commercial, arts, and cultural venues. rail yard to the west and south. Like the city itself, Mechanicsville grew up around the railroad lines. The neighborhood was named for the concentration of rail yards VIRGINIA-HIGHLAND and repair shops that were located in the area. Virginia-Highland, an historic neighborhood of six distinct commercial “villages”, abounds with small restaurants, WEST END lively bars, and a diverse mix of shopping experiences. The West End Historic District contains a rich mixture of architectural styles of the types popular in Georgia cities (and throughout the ) during the late INMAN PARK 19th and early 20th centuries. The West End Neighborhood Development, Inc. is Inman Park, a residential area full of classically restored continually working to improve the socioeconomic position of the community and homes, was Atlanta’s first planned community and is regarded its residents, and as a result, home prices are on the rise and countless renovations as one of the nation’s first garden suburbs. are under way.

CABBAGETOWN ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER Developed around the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, which A progressive force in the development of the African-American community in have been redeveloped into loft housing, Cabbagetown is Atlanta, Atlanta University Center houses six institutions of higher learning now an eclectic neighborhood with a mix of independent including Clark Atlanta University, , Morehouse School of businesses, restaurants, and local artist shops. Medicine, Spelman College, Morris Brown College, and the Interdenominational Theological Center. GRANT PARK The Grant Park neighborhood is named for Lemuel P. (L.P.) VINE CITY Grant, a civil engineer for the Georgia Railroad who has been Vine City, apparently named for the Vine Street that runs through the neighborhood, called the “Father of Atlanta.” As a neighborhood, this area is located just west of the Georgia Dome. The neighborhood changed rapidly as began to be populated in the 1890’s. Craftsmen built many people moved to Atlanta’s west side after a fire destroyed many homes on Auburn of the architecturally distinctive homes seen there today. Avenue in 1917. A commercial district sits on Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. ZooAtlanta is located in Grant Park. ENGLISH AVENUE SUMMERHILL To the northwest of Downtown, along Northside Drive, is the English Avenue area. Summerhill began as Atlanta’s first African-American real Antioch Baptist Church North has assembled more than 38 acres over the past 15 estate development soon after the Civil War. During the early years in the surrounding area. The church set up a community development 1900s, the neighborhood was home to a diverse group of organization called Bethursday Development Corp. and it is building mixed-market residents including Atlanta’s first Jewish and Greek rate/affordable-unit projects both here and in Vine City. communities. Through the efforts of Summerhill Neighborhood Development, Inc. and the Organized Neighbors of Summerhill, this neighborhood is experiencing significant revitalization and quickly regaining its former stature in the community.

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